"Under President Trump, the EPA will be focused on our core mission to protect human health and the environment," Administrator Lee Zeldin wrote in a statement.

Employees in the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights have been told they are being placed on paid administrative leave as the agency executes the Trump administration’s executive order to wipe out all program offices it deems as tied to diversity,

The move would unwind a Biden administration program to aid poor communities recovering from environmental risks.

Sources said President Donald Trump is planning to put over 100 Environmental Protection Agency workers on leave.

As President Donald Trump's second administration continued its effort to swiftly reshape the federal government, a union representing foreign service officers at the U.S. Agency for International Development accused the administration of failing to comply with last week’s temporary restraining order to prevent the dismantling of USAID.